Henry Bell

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That’s where Milan are Henry, they’re f’ing there!

Albeit a nailed on 0-0 tonight as you said on the Pod. Would gladly take that right now but let’s roll the footballing dice once more eh. Looking forward to reading the blog 👏🏼 #ForzaNapoli 🩵🤍🎲 ⚽️

We’ve got two greats playing each other tonight for #MilanNapoli.

The blog is back & here I consider what makes great players great.

(With some help from Diego Maradona, football tactics and Paddy Considine’s acting in Shane Meadows’ films)

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Great episode, loved Michele's naked schadenfreude at the Tribuna. A friend is getting me a ticket for city game so may see there, as a Romanista United fan (mainly FC now) I'll still be firmly siding with the Partonopei

He was on particularly spicey form!!

74 is here!

@getnapolitickets.bsky.social & I discuss:

😇 Who is the most Jesus like of Napoli's players?
🏟️ Decibel Bellini fiasco
💪 Napoli v Cagliari
🤬 ADL trolling the world?
💶 Away tickets for UCL games

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Cholito, Raspa and Osimhen - Three Very Different Farewells Henry bids farewell to Napoli icons and looks forward to the future following Napoli's most recent pre-season friendlies.

New blog!

I process my emotions with Cholito, Raspadori and Osimhen all leaving the club.

I then look forward to the future by going back through #NapoliSorrento in detail.

Please subscribe to the new substack and share!!

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New blog!

With the arrival of VMS, @sscnapolifc.bsky.social have the best goalkeeper in @seriea.bsky.social for the first time in the ADL era.

To celebrate this, I look back at the legacy of goalkeeping since 2004 in Naples.

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£60ish all in with the replica. Bargain (these days)

Napoli have really got these shirts right.

Pretty rapid arrival from Italy, replica option is really high quality and is a normal fit, too.

Design is beautiful and full of Neapolitan iconography when you look closely

Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir 21 juillet 2025 L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024. Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans. Nous refusons de les voir mourir. L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe. Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias. Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ». Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères. Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ». Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%. L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.

They are out of energy and they are starving to death.

I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.

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Quite a few really bad career decisions in the mercato. Osimhen and Retegui among them. No point in discussing the merits of other leagues (money talks as ever) but worth emphasizing again, that the Italian top flight remains one of the best in the world. Tired of people talking down Serie A.

Lorenzo Lucca: Welcome to Napoli! In his first blog for this new site, Henry Bell goes deep on why Lorenzo Lucca's signing excites him. Content warning for long-time pod listener Daniel Bowen: this post contains food references.

First blog is here!

Welcome To Napoli Lorenzo Lucca

I write about:-

9️⃣ the enjoyment of ‘proper strikers’ in Italy
🗣️ Uanema Jeppson and Neapolitan language
🌟 a history of Napoli ‘bombers’
🤔 how Lucca will fit into to Conte’s side

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London library forced to briefly close after fox 'made itself comfortable' inside Foxes have been known to live everywhere in London from back gardens to the top of the Shard

Fantastic

In The Shadow of Vesuvio | Substack For extra In The Shadow of Vesuvio bits. Click to read In The Shadow of Vesuvio, a Substack publication. Launched 3 hours ago.

🪶 Bit of news from me 🪶

In 2025/26 I’ll be writing about Napoli every week as part of the In The Shadow Of Vesuvio Substack that we’ve just launched.

I’ve really missed penning pieces on calcio and Naples and hope a few of you will be glad to see me back.

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72 is here!

Me & @getnapolitickets.bsky.social discuss:-

👕 Our new beautiful shirts
🇧🇪 Kevin De Bruyne’s arrival
🙋‍♀️ Listener Questions
🤔 Pros and cons of Conte driven mercato
🏟️ Stadio update

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Heartening! Deserves the 🩵. Amidst euphoria of Naples for Scudetto #3 Fiorentina match I bought Kim’s FaceGame shirt in what it turned out was a v challenging size Medium. I think he left for Bayern literally the next day so gone before it turned up. Low moment though still worn (just!) with pride 🙌🏼

Quite a few Kim shirts around on that weekend, too!

“McTominay isn’t idolised here but that’s not the same as not being idolised in say London. He is still 100% being assaulted every time he comes out of his house…….in a good way!”

A Michele classic there 😆

Great ep as usual 🙌🏼 Kim is a majorly underrated cult hero for me. An absolute collosus! 🩵🤍

71 is here!

We discuss:-

💩 71’s significance in Neapolitan culture
💶 the state of play with Osimhen
🤔 Osimhen’s Napoli legacy
🦸 What makes a Napoli mito?
🙋‍♀️ Listener questions

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Came out a while ago but if anyone wants to relive Napoli’s Scudetto weekend episode 70 is here:-

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I’m still coming down!

Omg @okwonga.bsky.social with the most perfect answer to *that* mailbag question.

McFratm managing his club in Genoa is the purest @stadio.football vibration that has ever been sounded.

Didn’t make it to Mortella but did indulge a day at Negombo.

Divine!!

I’m in Ischia, otherwise known as @legalizemaradona.com’s ancestral home.

Christ on a bike it is wonderful

NEW – Napoli Serie A Champions! 🔵🇮🇹🏆

Conte's Napoli secured the title this season by a single point. Here is the most-used formation, most-used 11 (by minutes) that fit it, and then the next 5 most-used players as 'subs'. Enjoy!

Fans, you can pick up a print here if you wish! ➡️🛒 buff.ly/3fDCDvh

‘That’s why a state is different to a rich man or venture capitalists, however unpleasant they may be, they’re not as bad as a state and never will be.’

The Football Weekly panel discuss PSG's Champions League win.

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69 is here!

A bonus mini pod made in Naples

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No club in Europe is like Napoli.

No place in Europe is like Naples.

#napoli #SSCNapoli #scudetto #forzanapolisempre

He surfaced this afternoon after a very late/early finish dependent on your perspective!

Has Michele survived the night?! Hope so. Very very special to be there. Grande Henry! 👏🏼👏🏼🩵🤍🏆🥇🫶🏼